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Introduction
Awakenings on Island Meadow Farm
On a quiet American island microfarm, something was stirring
Chapter
1
The New Micro Eco-Farmers
Across the country, meet the new micro eco-farmers: their lifestyle,
their voices, and why the world is ready for you to join them.
Chapter
2
A Treasury of New and Ancient Crops the World Now Embraces
The return to local production, culinary specialties, wild crops,
seed-saving and cuisines and cultures from around the world.
Chapter 3
The Animals: Ancient Breeds, Wildlife, and a New Vision
Reuniting the fauna with the flora as nature intended, how animals
can be an extra farmhand, and how they help sell the whole experience.
Chapter 4
Three New Foundations for "Restoring Eden"
Growing methods for all bioregions that parallel the organic
movement, leading to a self- sustaining home business, community
and world.
Chapter 5
The Abundance Methods: A Sampler of Productive Micro Eco-farming
Techniques
Abundant farming designs, microclimates, ancient methods, hidden
discoveries and eye- opening post-modern research.
Chapter 6
Orchestration, Diversity and Adaptability: The Power Behind the
Micro Eco-Farm
Beyond the farm, bring the rest of the symphony into the picture
Chapter 7
How to Begin, How to Learn, How to Continue to Flourish as the
Earth is Restored
Returning home to the farm (even if for the first time), how
others began and learned, and how you can too
Stories unfolding
on an earth eager to bloom again.
Epilogue
Growing Children's Souls: Families and Children (your own or
others') on the Farm
Kinship with nature / faith in the unseen, attaching nature to
human society, and fond memories of May on Island Meadow Farm.
Appendix
I
25 Unique Micro Eco-Farm Themes
Appendix
II
Resources and Networking
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